61. Healing from My Traumatic Birth Story

As the person who has always taken the holistic road in life, I planned my birth to be as natural as possible - I ate all of the dates, chugged raspberry tea, bounced on balls, curbed walked, did hypnobirthing courses and the list goes on. So how could I ever have imaged anything but a peaceful, intentional birth?After my birth continued and continued to turn sideways, I ended up with a highly medicalized birth that took my body a very long time to recover from. On top of the physical toll and the blood loss, came something I could have never in a million years imagined - deep shame. With the way by birth turned out, I could never share with anyone that I had failed as a woman. I deeply desired to keep this a secret. I was consumed by failure and shame and didn't even know what to do about it. It took 3.3 years to get here, but I am finally ready to process my birth story on episode 1 of The Magnetic Mama podcast. Thank you for being here, I am so grateful. Welcome to the Magnetic Mama Podcast.Music: Ikonamusic.com